WeedsportalStevens Decoys website discountsI'm offering your choice of 3 discounts to the first 50 collectors: 1. The Essential Guide to Stevens Decoys book (regularly $39.95) for...
WeedsportalFrom Heads to TailsGuest essay by collector Mark Malys. Being a passionate decoy collector, I am constantly admiring, appreciating, and critiquing my...
WeedsportalStevens Decoy Database SubscriptionAbout 2 years ago, I digitized all my records and photos of Stevens Decoys into a database. Some days I pushed myself 16 hours non-stop;...
WeedsportalThe Great Generational SuccessionThe fathers of collecting Stevens Decoys are Frank Ash and Hal Evans. They gave us “The Stevens Story”, published in the 1966-67 Decoy...
WeedsportalThe van Gogh of Decoy MakersI've said before that I think Harvey A. Stevens is the Vincent van Gogh of decoy makers. Yes, I wish upon a Starry Night that Harvey's...
WeedsportalWould Joel Barber be proud of us?I begin with my regards and compliments to Zac Cote of Guyette & Deeter for his description of the "Stevens Brothers" decoys being...
WeedsportalThe Black Swans of StevensIn his book, The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb reveals how rare, and inevitable, events are often ignored and, when understood, may...
WeedsportalEveryone should own a Stevens DecoyIt seems only fair that every man, woman and child ought to own a Stevens Decoy. If not for perfect entitlement, then, at least, to...
WeedsportalWhat's my Stevens worth?Every so often I'm asked to value a Stevens Decoy. Determining how much a buyer is willing to pay and a Seller willing to accept should...
WeedsportalThose are mallards, by George...One of the more interesting and useful areas of Stevens study is comparing decoys made by Harvey to those made by George. George wasn’t...
WeedsportalGetting downright DarwinianAnas platyrhynchos lignum (Mallard duck in wood) Let's explore the evolution of a Stevens Decoy in the manner of Charles Darwin. In order...
WeedsportalWho Made that Sleeper?Guest essay by Travis Bryant There has always been a layer of uncertainty when determining who made any specific Stevens Sleeper Decoy. ...
WeedsportalBuilding a Private Collection.I can no better understand why someone would collect baseball cards or toy tractors as they can understand my reason for collecting duck...
WeedsportalEbay Redhead EvaluationGuest essay by Travis Bryant Currently a Harvey Stevens Redhead Decoy is being offered on Ebay. See Listing. The auction will end on...
WeedsportalMurder on the Postal ExpressIn October 2012, I agreed to loan a very rare Stevens Mallard hen decoy to the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art for an exhibition. I had...
WeedsportalFirewoodGuest essay by Travis Bryant What is an antique decoy to you? Is it art; a piece of history that tells a story; a woodcarving...
WeedsportalI love decoys and...ratios!?!A large database gives us the opportunity to extract useful ratios. The larger the sample size – the more accurate the ratios. In each of...
WeedsportalSoldiers in the W.S.O. rig Sometime around 1890, Harvey Stevens received a large order for decoys from Dr. William S. Overton of Binghamton, New York. Dr. Overton...
WeedsportalStevens branded shorebirds?Years ago I'd get a call or an email every month from someone asking if the Stevens Brothers of Weedsport ever made shorebird decoys. The...
WeedsportalSome rules get broken, some don't...In The Essential Guide To Stevens Decoys, published in 2004, I set forth "Ten Missing Records or Ten Valuable Rules" in Chapter VIII. I...